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2019-04-23

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To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the potential
risk of losses to the public purse arising from applying the current accounting officer
conventions in the period leading up to the referendum on Scottish independence in
2014.

<p>I have been asked to reply on behalf of the Treasury.</p><p>The UK Government is
not planning for independence as it believes that people in Scotland will vote to
remain within the UK. As such, the Government has made no assessment of the risk of
losses to the public purse, and has no plans to change accounting officers conventions</p>

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what discussions he has had with officials
in his Department on how the accounting officers' conventions would apply to investment
in Scotland in advance of the referendum on Scottish independence in 2014.

<p>I have been asked to reply on behalf of the Treasury.</p><p>The UK Government is
not planning for independence as it believes that people in Scotland will vote to
remain within the UK. As such, the Government has made no assessment of the risk of
losses to the public purse, and has no plans to change accounting officers conventions</p>

To ask Her Majesty's Government, of the £108 million allocated in the 2010 Spending
Review to cover the costs of introducing individual electoral registration, how much
was spent in (1) 2010–11, (2) 2011–12, and (3) 2012–13; and how much is planned to
be spent in (1) 2013–14, and (2) 2014–15.

<p> </p><p>The spend to date and budgeted amounts are in the table below. The budget
for the transition to Individual Electoral Registration (IER) was set in 2010, based
on robust cost projections and included optimism bias in line with best practice.
Careful management of budgets, combined with an agile approach to the development
of the IT supporting the move to IER has helped to ensure that, to date, the programme
has come in under budget. </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The budget for IER has supported
three rounds of pilots since 2011 and a complete national test of the IT that will
support the automatic confirmation of at least 78% of current electors. It has enabled
the allocation of resources to Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) and partner
organisations (&pound;4.2m in the current financial year) to improve the completeness
and accuracy of the Electoral Register. </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>2014-15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Actual:</p><p>&pound;2,369,719</p></td><td><p>Actual:</p><p>&pound;5,074,446</p></td><td><p>Budget:</p><p>&pound;26,148,664</p></td><td><p>Budget:</p><p>&pound;65,478,868</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>For financial year
2015/16, &pound;148 million has been set aside for the costs of Individual Electoral
Registration, the General Election and the 2015/16 Boundary Commission; specific budgets
for each of these areas are yet to be allocated.</p><p> </p>

<p>Cabinet Office staff are entitled to take up to 52 weeks of maternity leave. </p><p>Staff
who have been continuously employed by the Civil Service for 26 weeks prior to the
15th week before the expected date of childbirth are eligible for maternity pay.</p><p>Within
the Cabinet Office maternity pay is equivalent to full pay for the initial 26 weeks
(ordinary maternity leave). During the following 26 weeks (additional maternity leave)
Statutory Maternity Pay is given for the first 13 weeks. The remaining 13 weeks are
unpaid.</p><p>Individuals who resign and do not return to work following maternity
leave are usually required to refund any contractual element of maternity pay they
have received. </p><p>Cabinet Office systems do not hold specific information on staff
who depart after periods of maternity leave. However, over the last 5 years, we estimate
that 96% of staff who were on maternity leave returned to work. </p><p> </p>

<p>Cabinet Office staff are entitled to take up to 52 weeks of maternity leave. </p><p>Staff
who have been continuously employed by the Civil Service for 26 weeks prior to the
15th week before the expected date of childbirth are eligible for maternity pay.</p><p>Within
the Cabinet Office maternity pay is equivalent to full pay for the initial 26 weeks
(ordinary maternity leave). During the following 26 weeks (additional maternity leave)
Statutory Maternity Pay is given for the first 13 weeks. The remaining 13 weeks are
unpaid.</p><p>Individuals who resign and do not return to work following maternity
leave are usually required to refund any contractual element of maternity pay they
have received. </p><p>Cabinet Office systems do not hold specific information on staff
who depart after periods of maternity leave. However, over the last 5 years, we estimate
that 96% of staff who were on maternity leave returned to work. </p><p> </p>

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many workplace nurseries (a) directly
operated by his Department and (b) operated by a third party on his Department's property
there were at (a) 5 May 2010 and (b) 5 February 2014; and how many such nurseries
are expected to cease operating in (i) 2014-15 and (ii) 2015-16.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of civil servants in his
Department who were promoted in each of the last five years were identified as (a)
white British and (b) from any other ethnic minority group.

<p>Promotion in the Cabinet Office is based on merit and suitability for the post
in question.</p><p>The requested statistics on promotion are not readily available.
However, we estimate that male staff constituted 51% of all those promoted since April
2011. This closely reflects the overall proportion currently working in my Department.</p><p>Figures
for ethnicity and disability are not available. Cabinet Office does not compel staff
to declare against workforce diversity indicators, including ethnicity and disability.</p><p>
</p>

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of civil servants in his
Department who had been on maternity leave were still employed in the Civil Service
(a) six and (b) 12 months after their return to work in each of the last five years.

<p>Cabinet Office staff are entitled to take up to 52 weeks of maternity leave. </p><p>Staff
who have been continuously employed by the Civil Service for 26 weeks prior to the
15th week before the expected date of childbirth are eligible for maternity pay.</p><p>Within
the Cabinet Office maternity pay is equivalent to full pay for the initial 26 weeks
(ordinary maternity leave). During the following 26 weeks (additional maternity leave)
Statutory Maternity Pay is given for the first 13 weeks. The remaining 13 weeks are
unpaid.</p><p>Individuals who resign and do not return to work following maternity
leave are usually required to refund any contractual element of maternity pay they
have received. </p><p>Cabinet Office systems do not hold specific information on staff
who depart after periods of maternity leave. However, over the last 5 years, we estimate
that 96% of staff who were on maternity leave returned to work. </p><p> </p>

<p>Promotion in the Cabinet Office is based on merit and suitability for the post
in question.</p><p>The requested statistics on promotion are not readily available.
However, we estimate that male staff constituted 51% of all those promoted since April
2011. This closely reflects the overall proportion currently working in my Department.</p><p>Figures
for ethnicity and disability are not available. Cabinet Office does not compel staff
to declare against workforce diversity indicators, including ethnicity and disability.</p><p>
</p>